# Martha Wade Steketee: Women Count Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/first-online-with-fran-8997/martha-wade-steketee-women-count Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/first-online-with-fran-8997/martha-wade-steketee-women-count.md Podcast: [First Online With Fran](https://stenobird.com/podcast/first-online-with-fran-8997) Published: 2024-10-06T18:57:00+00:00 Episode link: https://podcast.show/firstonlinewithfran/episode/137138139/ Audio file: https://media.blubrry.com/firstonlinewithfran/content.blubrry.com/firstonlinewithfran/Martha_Steketee_Podcast.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/first-online-with-fran-8997/episodes/martha-wade-steketee-women-count Duration seconds: 1726 ## Resource Holding people's feet to the fire by just saying, 'You know what, you may think that a lot of women are being hired.' 'I've done five shows last season, isn't that enough to make women happy?' 'No! it's the consistency of the pattern of hiring because we've been doing this now for fifteen years!' ~Martha Steketee Martha Wade Steketee is a critic, researcher, and dramaturg. Michigander, who loved movies and theater, went off to study literature at Harvard and social science and social welfare at Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Michigan, spent 20 years as a court researcher and domestic policy analyst in university and nonprofit research offices in several cities, then landed in dramaturgy, criticism, and theater research. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/first-online-with-fran-8997/episodes/martha-wade-steketee-women-count/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/first-online-with-fran-8997/martha-wade-steketee-women-count.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.